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The Museum Of Online Museums - MoOM
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The MoOM is a part of the Coudal Partners site. Based in Chicago, CP is a small design firm with big ideas.

MoOM Mission

Welcome to the Coudal Partners Museum of Online Museums. Here, you will find links from our archives to online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of interests and obsessions: Start with a review of classic art and architecture, and graduate to the study of mundane (and sometimes bizarre) objects elevated to art by their numbers, juxtaposition, or passion of the collector. The MoOM is organized into three sections.

The Museum Campus contains links to brick-and-mortar museums with an interesting online presence. Most of these sites will have multiple exhibits from their collections (or, in the case of the Smithsonian, displays of items not on display in the Washington museum itself).

The Permanent Collection displays links to exhibits of particular interest to design and advertising.

Galleries, Exhibition, and Shows is an ecelctic and ever-changing list of interesting links to collections and galleries, most of them hosted on personal web pages. In other words, it's where all the good stuff is.

One thing you won't find at MoOM are collections of posters or maps. As particular interests of ours, posters and maps have their own departments in the coudal.com archives. Find them and be lost for hours. MoOM will be evolving each week, so if you have a link that you think belongs here, please send a note to "kevin at coudal dot com" for consideration. And enjoy the galleries.

BTW: The MoOM was featured recently on NPR's All Things Considered and selected as one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites for 2005. It was reviewed on The Voice of America radio show, Our World and received a nice writeup by Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell in the New York Times Circuits Section, another longer piece by Sarah Boxer in the NYT arts section and similarly kind attention from The Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.coudal.com/moom.php
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